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tires
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:30 am
by lbgjb
time to replace my tailwheel--any suggestions for brands or purchase places? i've got 8" scott tailwheel. ply rating?? 4/6/8?? thanks. lbb
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 7:25 pm
by GAHorn
Desser Tire, found in TradeAPlane will ship free if you also purchase a main tire and/or tube. They also give free tire talc to sprinkle inside the tire to prevent chafeing the tube. 800-247-8473
I purchased new "Retro" tires for my airplane. IF you order online thru their website, they'll throw in new tubes for free! (Worth about $35 each.) It made the price of Retro tires the least expensive. (Always install a new tube when replacing tires.)
http://www.desser.com/
Aircraft Spruce will also sell you a tire/tube if that's all you want and prefer to buy thru them.
In any case, it's a 2.80/2.50 X 4 McCreary tire (and tube). About $23.
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 9:01 pm
by funseventy
George,
The largest tire you can get the free tube with is a 600x6. I thought those little things were for pushing it around in the hangar while you are polishing, not actually flying!!
Kelly
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 4:06 am
by zero.one.victor
I thought those little 600-6's are for Alaska tailwheels!
Eric
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 12:31 pm
by N73087
Help out a "newby". What is the advantage of larger tires? What is the disadvantage of the 6.00-6?
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 1:50 pm
by Bruce Fenstermacher
Big tires roll over biger stuff better and don't sink into softer stuff as much but have more drag. Small tires don't do as well over big stuff and soft stuff but have less drag. If you have whell pants you must use the small tires to fit inside them.
I personally like the look of 7.00 and larger and have 8.00 myself but more important, my wife likes big tires and I always try to please her.
Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 5:16 pm
by GAHorn
The most common tire is the 6:00 X 6, and there is no "disadvantage" to it unless you are considering soft or rough terrain, where larger tire sizes spread the footprint over a larger area and roll over larger obstructions more easily.
Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 10:52 am
by Dave Clark
Also remember bigger tires are heavier.
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:17 am
by zero.one.victor
Dave Clark wrote:Also remember bigger tires are heavier.
And more expensive--but they look more "right"!
You still on the island Dave? When ya headed south?
Eric
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 12:54 am
by Harold Holiman
My plane had 8:00 tires on it when I got it. I debated about putting 6:00 tires back on it and putting wheel pants on it because I like the looks of wheel pants. However, I decided to stay with the 8:00's and now I have gotten used to them and like the looks of them on my plane better than wheel pants (well maby actually just as much, not better). They are also better on rough strips. If they made the original tread type like George got in 8:00's, I would get them, but the original tread type are not presently available in 8:00's as far as I can find.
Harold H
Mbr #893
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:01 am
by GAHorn
There's an interesting characteristic to these "Retro" treaded tires. Whenever I make a taxying turn, ...the tires "rumble" when that diamond tread increases it's contact with the pavement. It sounds like when I was a kid, and we'd use clothes-pins to attach playing cards or cardboard to our bicycle fenders, so they'd "rumble" against the spokes. I love it!
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:13 am
by Harold Holiman
George,
Let me know if you here of someone making "retro" 8:00 tires. I also used to like the closepin cards in the spokes, untill I got my Wizzer Sportsman motorbike when I was in the 7th grade.
Harold H
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 12:26 am
by wa4jr
Well, the only advantage I can think of with the large tires other than better handle on rough strips is it makes one's airplane look like the equivalent of Bozo the clown...you do remember the overly large shoes he wore don't you?
OK, just kidding. Back in high school I used to like those big tires too...the coolest kids had the largest tires on the back axle of our cool muscle cars. Now I wouldn't drive one of those cars unless I had a bag over my head. My how our perspectives change over the years
I'm with George, been eyeing those "cool" retro tires in the "proper" size of 6.00 x 6
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 1:25 am
by Bruce Fenstermacher
Well John,
Us BIG GUYS like BIG tires and I only wish I still had my 64 1/2 Mustang Convertible, '57 Chevy and '64 Nova with BIG tires to drive around
Only way to make those 6.00x6s look right is to hide them with wheel pants
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:01 am
by zero.one.victor
N9149A wrote:Well John,
Us BIG GUYS like BIG tires and I only wish I still had my 64 1/2 Mustang Convertible, '57 Chevy and '64 Nova with BIG tires to drive around
Only way to make those 6.00x6s look right is to hide them with wheel pants
that's spelled "wheel panties"..................